An 8th grade student at Aspen Middle School raised $280 to provide Grateful Deli gift cards to people experiencing homelessness in the Roaring Fork Valley through a program she hopes expands beyond the holiday season..
Government service providers and community groups in Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield counties are coordinating efforts for the first time to better understand how many people are unhoused or experiencing homelessness in the area on a single night. Organizers are looking for volunteers to join the “Unsheltered Point in Time Count” on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Homelessness has long been an underdefined and underserved issue in Eagle County, but that is beginning to change. Up until this year, the county’s ability to identify and support the local homeless population has been.
While the nonprofit that runs the day shelter for Aspen’s homeless population has decided to close it, Pitkin County’s Human Services staff are trying to figure out a way to keep it open.
The final cleanup for the COVID-prompted homeless camp at the Brush Creek Intercept Lot is set for Sunday after the logistics of keeping it open became untenable.